40.16.16

Print, Photographic

1961 Approximate

Babe and Bert Steele, Edna Fowler. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". Description: black and white photo of three people seated in a living room; they are identified as Babe and Bert Steele and Edna Fowler. Note on reverse: "The last picture we ever took. Mrs. Crick (next door) came over and insisted on taking it--was Xmas day. I was getting dinner and I looked it". The date of 1955 written on reverse and developer's date of 1961 on front do not agree.

These photos are from the Smith family: Emmons (E.H.) Smith and Catharine were owners of the Waseca Hotel at one time; their son Howard Smith married Martha Buschow; Howard and Martha's son Robert Smith married Marilyn Progreba, the donor of this photo collection.